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2. Inflammation of the uterus attacks the ewe from one to four 
days after parturition, and generally when this has been difficult, 
or any violence has been used in extracting the lamb; but some¬ 
times without any assignable cause. The treatment employed is 
copious bleeding; but I have hardly ever known it succeed. The 
loss of ewes may be estimated at from two to five per cent. 
3. The most unaccountable and shepherd-vexing disease of all 
that I am acquainted with, is the joint-garget in lambs. This 
attacks them from two to five weeks old, commencing with a 
general stiffness and indisposition to suck, then falling into the 
knees or hocks, or both, which swell very much ; it terminates 
in incurable lameness and worthlessness, in two cases out of three. 
This disease must belong entirely to the lamb, as when another is 
put to the sheep it generally does well. I do not hint at the 
cause of this disease, as the most experienced observers confess 
themselves entirely in ignorance of it; and remedy I know of 
none. It is rather capricious in its attacks, and sometimes 
carries off’from ten to fifteen per cent., of apparently the health¬ 
iest and finest lambs of the flock. 
In conclusion, I beg to observe, that my reason for selecting 
the above diseases is, because I have never found them describ¬ 
ed in any work on sheep; but if this communication should be 
the means of calling your attention and that of others to 
the fact that such diseases do exist, my object will be fully 
answered. 
RECOVERY IN A CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA AFTER 
EXCISION OF THE BITTEN PARTS. 
To the Editor o/’The Lancet. 
Should you consider the subjoined case worthy the notice of 
your numerous readers, you will oblige us by inserting it. We 
have the honour to be. Sir, your obedient servants, 
T. Tomkin, Witham, Essex. 
E. S. Varenne, Kelvedon, Essex. 
August 9, 1835. 
Lucy Farrer, setat. 35, had a favourite dog, which became 
sickly about the middle of last June. It was restless and averse 
to food. On the 22d, while she was coaxing the animal to eat 
and drink, it became irritable, snapped at and bit her in the 
little finger of the right hand, and walked away. The wounds, 
